New owners have big plans for MetroPlex Hotel

LIBERTY — A Pennsylvania physician said she has put her medical practice on hold and is ready to do whatever it takes to restore the luster to the MetroPlex Hotel and Convention Center.

Dr. Indira Sammy and two family members last month bought the hotel last month for $900,000 from a bank that had foreclosed on the property. Lenders were afraid of the deal because the hotel was losing money, so the partnership used its own cash for the purchase, she said.

Sammy said the owners are so committed to restoring the hotel at Interstate 80 and Belmont Avenue that they are prepared to sell two hotels they own in Lancaster, Pa., if they can’t borrow the $2 million she wants for renovations.

“This isn’t a business for us. This is THE business,” Sammy said in a news conference at the hotel today.

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